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Chapter 1
Embedded System Tools Architecture
This chapter describes the Embedded System Tools (EST) architecture and flows for the
Xilinx embedded processors, PowerPC 405 and MicroBlaze. The chapter contains the
following sections.
x “Tool Architecture Overview”
x “Tool Flows”
x “Some Useful Tools”
x “Verifying Tools Setup”
Tool Architecture Overview
Figure 1-1 depicts the embedded software tool architecture. Multiple tools based on a
common framework allow the user to design the complete embedded system. System
design consists of the creation of the hardware and software components of the embedded
processor system, and optionally, a verification or simulation component as well. The
hardware component consists of an automatically generated hardware platform that can
be optionally extended to include other hardware functionality specified by the user. The
software component of the design consists of the software platform generated by the tools,
along with the user designed application software. The verification component consists of
automatically generated simulation models targeted to a specific simulator, based on the
hardware and software components.
Figure 1-1: Embedded Software Tool Architecture
SW Spec Ed.
SW Plat. Gen.
SW Source Ed.
SW. Compilers
SW Debugger
XMD
Data2BMEM
X10087
HW Spec Ed.
HW Plat. Gen
Sim Spec Ed.
Sim Plat. Gen.
Simulators
ISE - HW Impl.
iMPACT
XPS